14 Nov 1894
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1894
Page
1
The week covers wins for Levi Morton and Charles Saxton in New York, Strong as New York mayor, Hasting governor in Pennsylvania, and wide coverage of fires, murders, storms, and political upsets across the U.S. including arrests, trial notes, and naval appointments. It notes blizzards in New England, fires in Savannah and Ohio, election disputes, and international tensions in Europe and Asia.
Buffalo reports weeks of inquiry into the disappearance of Cornell collegian Fred Rew from Ithaca on Oct 2 ends with a belief he was murdered. Detectives trace a path ending miles from Ithaca as the missing man’s father Eben Brew hints at a hidden body and a robbery motive.
A fragmented verse discusses rain's hold and the lone shower’s defiance, the firefly claiming the word light, and a small mind seeking to grasp infinity. It presents a stylized meditation on power, illumination, and human scale.
Ex-Congressman Ed Barrett touts Hawkinsville Georgia as the focal point of Thanksgiving revelry In Hawkinsville preachers deacons and church members denounce the gander pull while locals grease the bird and riders chase it from a tree The contest resumes after a big hand eventually captures the gander as spectators watch in mixed horror and fascination cited by the New York Sun.
General O. O. Howard, retired U.S. Army, will address the public meeting that opens the Michigan state Sunday school convention this evening at Lockerby Hall in Grand Rapids.
New York Money Market reports at 1 percent on money. Prime mercantile paper quoted at 24 74 percent. Sterling exchange shows actual bank bills at 4.8744 for demand and 4.8644 for 60 days. Posted rates list several quotations including government, railroad bonds, and silver at 64c bid.
Market bulletin lists flour prices by mills and regions including FLOUR CITY and Minnesota. Details cover winter, spring, and extra grades. rye, buckwheat, cornmeat, barley malt, wheat options and spot sales. butter, cheese, eggs, hay, pork, and potatoes with state, regional, and freight terms.
Wheat prices range from No 1 hard 7148c to No 2 red 564c with other grades listed. Corn No 2 yellow 7c and 64c, oats No 2 white 35c, rye 54c in store, barley No 1 western 61c. Flour prices grant ranges by grade, butter 24 25c, cheese full cream 11 11?c, eggs state 22c to 24c.
East Buffalo market notes cattle steer prices from 4.75 to 5.40 for extras and heavies, cows and calves values around 3.50 and 5.50, sheep and lambs bidding 2.25 to 4.25, hogs at 4.70 to 4.80, with hay and straw prices listed for baled and loose stock. Includes per ton figures for time and common mixes, plus baled hay at 12.00 and 7.00 for baled do.
A New York man killed fifty three rattlesnakes in a den he found. A Nebraska four year old boy burned to death by a jar of hot plum butter. Dawn's horse in Marble Hill Missouri learned to jump fences to drink then return to confinement. Henry Goopricu in Shirley Missouri shot a bear mother and a cub after seeing them at dinner. Eben White of St Johns Michigan slept under a tree when a chipmunk interfered with snoring. Johann Berest of Franklin County Kentucky born in a poorhouse traveled as a tailor and returned to the alms house. An elderly German man Jurklies, seventy three, hanged himself after his fourth marriage proposal was rejected.
A collage of witty snippets from era periodicals. Jests touch on journalism fashion and social behavior as reported in sources including the Boston Courier Browning's Monthly Washington Star Indianapolis Journal and Harper's Bazar. The pieces showcase playful banter about marriage fortune and readers.
Lord Rostenery spends his daughter's fifteenth birthday at Dalmeny park while Admiral Iro earns the nickname the Lean Admiral for his thin frame and has a blonde daughter among Japan's few. A Russian court princess brings attire. czar funds a splendid Paris trousseau. A German journalist notes Bismarck aged and weak. The Russian emperor has four sets of fifty horses each, including a white team with blue eyes and lavish harness.
A collection of maxims and literary lines touching on time restraint self love gratitude heaven prayer and freedom. Notable voices include Bacon Lessing Shakespeare Blake Beecher Garrick Napoleon Junius and Parker. The lines contrast moral guidance with political insight and human sentiment.
The article notes pearls valued at £10000 stolen from the River Tay and observes Black pearls now fetch high prices. It highlights sources in ocean regions where fresh water meets sea and mentions Suakim Red Sea and Fooshi. An American seeks a patent for a process to manufacture real pearls by extracting oyster shell matter, dissolving foreign matter, and redepositing it around a core.
A colored man Seward owns the birthplace of President Monroe by the Potomac near Mount Vernon. Daniel M. Sprather of Mohawk National Bank of Fonda N Y is the oldest bank president, just turned ninety six. Hosken the postman poet gives up letters for literature. Louise Imogen Guiney, Auburndale postmistress, writes essays for Knight Errant. Mrs Mary W Sewell, Indianapolis leader and Milwaukee born, runs a girls training school. Factory girls in Scotland work fourteen to sixteen hours daily, earning six shillings weekly. A broad move seeks legislation to ease conditions.
A collection of simple dishes from Cornish eggs and cheese to fruit pudding parsnip cream and orange float. Includes methods for ice cool custards boiled cauliflower snow custard creamer oysters and related kitchen steps with plain home cookery guidance.
The article explains pain as a warning and healing aid, noting that rest and restorable recovery follow injury. It advocates regular vacations to prevent nerve fatigue, reduce strain, and preserve vitality, framing time off as duty rather than indulgence per Youth's Companion.
A recipe explains lemon sirup by slicing twelve lemons, layering with ten pounds of sugar, four to five hours infusion, adding water, heating without boiling, straining and bottling to last a year. Also noted: Lulu R Georg e, NY wallpaper designer, sold 300000 rolls of a popular Chinese pattern. the world’s costliest frame worth $125000 features The Virgin and Child painting.
A playful verse lampoons doctors and clerks while invoking myth and philosophy. It contrasts healing feats with mundane turnspikes and a night journey to the regions below, ending by classifying humans as featherless bipeds despite Plato.
A reflective verse speaks of longing and ambition as a child heir to a troubled throne. It contrasts tender youth with impending responsibilities and laments weariness before the child’s path is complete.
A poem from the Christian Intelligencer portrays a woman seeking rights not as a rebel but as a partner in life. It contrasts her earnest, unsexed yet hungry nature with male mockery and her attachment to a tyrant husband. The piece emphasizes mutual meaning between men and women and maternal devotion to children.
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